A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh

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xix. oldal Pavement Slabs. Discoveries in the Centre of the Mound. Tombs containing
Wases and Ornaments. Sculptures. Further Discoveries in the S.W. Edifice.
Sculptures. Discovery of more Tombs in the S.E. Corner— of Chambers beneath
them ...

8. oldal After a little opposition from the inhabitants, they were permitted to sink a well in
the mound; and at a small distance from the surface they came to the top of a wall
which, on digging deeper, they found to be lined with sculptured slabs of ...

9. oldal ... and that the gypsum slabs, reduced to lime, were rapidly falling to pieces on
exposure to the air. No precaution could arrest this rapid decay; and it was to be
feared that this wonderful monument had only been uncovered to complete its
ruin.

16. oldal We could not remove it, and on digging downward, it proved to be the upper part
of a large slab. I ordered ... Similar inscriptions occupied the centre of all the slabs, which were in the best preservation; but plain, with the exception of the
writing.

17. oldal The slabs, which had been almost reduced to lime by exposure to intense heat,
threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered. Night interrupted our labors. I
returned to the village well satisfied with their result. It was now evident that the ...